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March 22, 2009, Sunday

Questions for Bush DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, author of a forthcoming history of Abraham Lincoln's White House: History suggests our best presidents acknowledge error, learn from mistakes, grow in the job. Lincoln readily conceded a number of...

March 30, 2003, Sunday

To the Editor: Re ''How to Go to the Polls Twice,'' by Jedediah Purdy (Op-Ed, Nov. 3): Mr. Purdy talks about vote-swapping but doesn't address the problem of honesty. How does the Nader supporter in the swing state know the Gore supporter in...

November 4, 2000, Saturday

One person who was glad when ''Seinfeld'' ended was Jedediah Purdy. He is also, no doubt, eagerly awaiting Bart Simpson's retirement. Mr. Purdy is the home-schooled West Virginia wunderkind who last year, at the age of 25, published ''For Common...

I found the photo of the Purdys, barefooted in their living room, charming, and I read on. Here was Opie with an I.Q. Bill Moyers loves him. How disappointed I was to read that this young man who states that ''we need a way of thinking and doing that...

October 3, 1999, Sunday

I can only hope that your writer quoted the gushing comment of an Exeter faculty member about Jed Purdy (''I feel I have met a young William Buckley'') with some irony intended. It's hard to imagine that the obviously sincere and wholesome Purdy...

October 3, 1999, Sunday

It is no wonder that Jedediah Purdy is remarkable; he has a goodly heritage (Marshall Sella, Sept. 5). Fifty years ago, his paternal grandparents were our neighbors. Harold and Sally were salt of the earth -friendly, kind, compassionate and...